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funny humorous mind
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. Charles Dickens
funny morning self
All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature. Charles Dickens
funny death witty
He would make a lovely corpse. Charles Dickens
funny kings humorous
It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. Charles Dickens
funny people literature
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
funny christmas xmas
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Charles Dickens
funny law people
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens
funny marriage wedding
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
funny age fifty
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. Charles Caleb Colton
grim included job reporting state
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic. Shereen El Feki
grim initially looked reaper seemed sitting stopped turn
Yeah, I did (think about it). Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score. Jerry Jones
grim initially looked reaper seemed sitting stopped turn
Yeah, I did (think about it), ... Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score. Jerry Jones
grim hurricane importance katrina reminder
Hurricane Katrina is a grim reminder of the importance of preparedness, Mufi Hannemann
grim poverty saw student thinking troubled
From the beginning, as a thinking student of 15, 16 years ago, I was troubled by the grim poverty that I saw around me. Manmohan Singh
grim largely line report
This report was largely in line with expectations. It was a grim report. Eric Lascelles
grim miss start
Maybe, I'm the Grim Reaper, ... I miss a start and we scored 10 runs. Roger Clemens
grim life meant turning
I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax. And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really. Tim Curry
grim life meant turning
I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax, ... And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really. Tim Curry
lose
We want to try this to see if we can make a difference. We just don't want to lose (the students). Chuck Hatfield
loser given riders
I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day. David Millar
loser winner economy
So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers. David Korten
lose morning people wake
When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?' Newt Gingrich
lose morning truth wake
Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. Nick Flynn
lose love musical
I love rock and opera, and I love musical theater, and I don't want to lose any of that. Lauren Worsham
lose safety sight
We're not going to lose sight of safety, Norman Mineta
loses
Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went. Edith Piaf
loses
I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love! Edmond Rostand
order generosity brave
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Charles Caleb Colton
order matter mystery
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it. Charles Caleb Colton
order doubt sake
It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them. Charles Spurgeon
order waiting world
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. Charles Spurgeon
order bridges insane
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. Alan Watts
order names knowing
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I. Alan Watts
order telescopes looks
The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself. Alan Watts
order luxury long
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. Alan Moore
order lust desire
In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take. Alan Moore
readers
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. Lee Siegel
readers
I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about. Christina Baker Kline
readers whether
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood. Binyavanga Wainaina
readers
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. Khaled Hosseini
readers suffer writers
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. Sarah MacLean
readers
Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good, Noah Cowan
readers running
We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it. James O'Shea
readers
Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks. J. A. Konrath
readers reluctant
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. Barbara Park
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. Alan Watts
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave. Dave Chappelle